All kinds of reasons. She may have bought the house before she went to school. She may have inherited it. She may have acquired title in a divorce. In any event, you can’t assume it was a bad financial decision. In many areas, owning a home is significantly cheaper than renting (particularly in the long run,…

I’m fortunate to not have student loans, but I had to get up and take a lap when I read about $120,000 ballooning to over $300,000 since Ms. McDaniel and I ostensibly started college the same year.

I am a CPS parent and I say, give them what they want. I would go further and cap charter school growth (which I believe they did in LA) - they perpetuate the segregation and they take public funds while not being held accountable to the public for results or proper spending. Rahm’s expansion of UNO charters, CPS…

His smirking, leering start to that interview. “Well, we’ve certainly seen a lot of you recently..” made me want to set him on fire.

In fairness, I doubt it was just NBC in the news biz. I’m in a different biz and the big harassers are similarly whispered about and well known. The problem comes for women - young and older - who take jobs from outside that network. They are seldom on the grapevine and get harassed before they get warned (sometimes).…

How fucking DARE you talk about due process and blocking legislation. You worthless fucking swamp turtle. Go home and die.

So I assume that all these white women that have been sentenced to “hard time” will become advocates for women of color who have been given way harsher sentences for similar crimes right? I mean when Felicity Huffman gets out of “the joint” she surely will lend her celebrity to the cause of helping these women in jail…

BTW, that’s the BRILLIANCE OF HER AS SPEAKER...how many fucking people (Ashley Reese) and moronic progressives DIDN’T WANT HER AS SPEAKER??? She knows what she’s doing...experience counts (looking at you Mayor Pete)

Maybe he can pass on some of his newly acquired wisdom to his dad.

Movie star who's semi-retired at 50 and surrounded by dogs? Worked for Doris Day!

Eh, religious people generally pick and choose what they would like to follow so she’ll keep her pumpkins but maybe not wear lingerie and some kind of animal ears this year as a ‘costume’. 

“And in 2017 Texas cops searched a woman’s vagina, inserting fingers into it, for 11 minutes and found nothing”

My loans are from the feds and they charge 7.9%. I can only get it refinanced down to 5% if my parents put up collateral with our credit union.

Dystopian events repackaged as feel good stories are really getting old

I’d also like to echo everyone else’s sentiments- you only need to look at her insta to see how aspirational rather than realistic this is :( Maybe saying no to her family and making memories was turning down a third/fourth holiday in 2019

Based on the numbers someone posted above for a full-time writing position at the Daily Beast, that’s plausible; those are averages, so there’s a solid chance that she’s making less than posted, so let’s say $4-5000/month, and if she was doing side jobs in addition to her full-time job, then she could have been…

I’m really deep in climate nihilism these days, and I can’t help but think the years she spent torturing herself to pay this debt were a massive waste of limited time.

Compliance with congressional subpoenas is not optional for private citizens Gouliani. I predict this going just as well for him as it did Chelsea Manning. 

We tax inheritances in America, pretty heavily. The Waltons tie up their money and assets in businesses and foundations, however, which are family controlled. It’s like a bowl in the middle of the house the family can take whatever from, but isn’t technically owned by any individual. This is why even if you get…

Can I use this to have a soapbox moment? The Slot needs to start churning out frequent political stuff since we don’t have Splinter anymore.

Fuck yeah. Tax. These. Motherfuckers. Or bring the guillotine, seize their assets and redistribute them I’m fine with either scenario, not picky!